Stay One Step Ahead Home Safety Project

Working with the University of Nottingham, we supported through funding a co-developed evidence-based home safety promotion programme - Stay One Step Ahead (SOSA) - with parents, practitioners, and injury prevention experts from Nottingham City, and evaluated its implementation in the four SSBC wards in Nottingham.

The SOSA intervention comprised standardised home safety advice provided through

• use of home safety checklists by health visiting teams (HVTs) in child health reviews at 9-12 months and 24-30 months and at post-accident contacts,
• monthly safety messages distributed by HVTs, children centres (CCs) and family mentors (FMs),
• four safety weeks annually delivered by CCs,
• eight manualised home safety activities delivered by FMs,
• referral to relevant agencies by HVTs, CCs and FMs.

Academic articles on the Stay One Step Ahead project are also available as open access - please click on the links below to access:

• The 'stay-one-step-ahead' child home safety programme; effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
• Implementation fidelity of the 'Stay One Step Ahead' home safety intervention:  a mixed-methods analysis
• Evaluation of the effectiveness, implementation and cost-effectiveness of the Stay One Step Ahead home safety promotion intervention for pre-school children:  a study protocol
• Effectiveness of systematically delivered evidence-based home safety promotion to improve child home safety practices: a controlled before-and-after study.
• Implementation fidelity of the 'Stay One Step Ahead' home safety intervention: a mixed-methods analysis. 
• Cost-effectiveness of the "Stay One Step Ahead" Home Safety programme for the prevention of injuries amongst children under five years